About Kevin Koo

Kevin Koo is the managing partner of Koo Chin Nam & Co., a law firm based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has an LLM from Universiti Malaya and a Master of Management from Universiti Tun Abdul Razak.
He can be reached on Twitter at @kevinkoosk.

When ICOs first became popular, nearly every ICO said that its token was not a security. The pundits called 2017, the year of the utility token. But this year, security token offerings (STOs) became popular. Emerging regulatory frameworks have paved the way for the sale of security tokens. Background – The DAO and the SEC’s […]

Introduction – The Restaurant Menu Imagine if you brought a friend for a lunch meeting. You both enter a restaurant and sit in a corner. Scanning the menu, you select your dishes, and inform the waiter. As the waiter leaves, you notice the fine print. “Photographs are for illustration purposes only.” So the question might […]

In the crypto world, there is a trend. “We are a regulated crypto exchange.” “We are an approved e-money licence services provider.” “Our securities token offering is regulated by the government of bla bla bla.” This is a trend, a response to the increasing regulation that is creeping up in countries all over the world. […]

Some ICO tokens are just placeholders. Probably not for all ICOs, but for some ICOs — the tokens sold in the token sale are merely standing in for another Blockchain token, that is designed to operate on the project described in the ICO white paper. They are merely waiting for the time of the great […]

Hacked Coin Exchange: Mt Gox James (not his real name) is a Bitcoin investor. Back in 2014, James used Mt Gox, the world’s biggest coin exchange. He stored all his Bitcoins there. Until one day, when James woke up to find that Mt Gox had been hacked, and all of its Bitcoins were gone. Mt […]

Introduction – Scam ICOs Nobody could guess that it was another case of scam ICOs. Prodeum would, in not so many words, put fruits and vegetables on the blockchain. The premise was that, PLU’s (price look-ups) were outdated. Prodeum would use Ethereum and IPFS to revolutionize PLU coding. The funds came in. The exact amount raised […]

Introduction to Crypto-Inflation Today’s post is a response to a conversation about ICO’s and what would happen if, in the real world, a government prints money. I call it crypto-inflation. Before we begin, here is my disclaimer: I am not an expert on economics. My training and education have been on law. I studied managerial […]

Introductions – Legal Obligations Post-ICO So, your ICO has run its course. You reached the soft cap, then you reached the hard cap. You are successful, and you have money waiting to be spent. But have you considered your legal obligations post-ICO? The first thing many ICO teams would do is to enjoy the funds […]

Introduction – What is ICO? You may be wondering, what is ICO and what all the fuss is about. ICO, or initial coin offering, is a fundraising method. It’s not a traditional fundraising method, where equities are given in exchange for funds. Before we dive into what is ICO, I want you to imagine something. […]

We share some considerations for drafting future blockchain laws. By now you would have realized that Blockchain is not going away. It is here to stay. More and more, businesses and governments are now moving to the Blockchain. Here, we identify some things governments should consider, when drafting future Blockchain laws. Responses by Governments to […]